“The Audience” is a sort of starched-bosomed nanny of a play, offering the artistic equivalent of nursery food and equally digestible history lessons.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMVanessa Redgrave plays a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in “The Revisionist,” written by her co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:46AMWomen — from real life and fiction — will be the leading characters of several prominent Broadway productions (like “Ann,” “The Testament of Mary” and “Matilda the Musical”) …
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMIn the gorgeous new production of “The Glass Menagerie” at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., something both momentous and commonplace has happened.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:23AMThe topic at hand in “Women of Will” is the burning issue of pants versus dresses, which assumes genuine urgency.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:16PMMartin Moran’s one-man show “All the Rage” is a map of self-discovery.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:37PMLyle Kessler’s “Collision,” presented by the Amoralists troupe, follows a college student’s efforts to enlist others in a plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PM“The Suit,” at the Harvey Theater, retells a story about adultery and pitiless punishment by the South African writer Can Themba.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:45PMThe Nalagaat Theater, which is made up of performers who are both deaf and blind, offers an optional dinner in their performance piece “Not by Bread Alone.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:43PMScarlett Johansson confirms her promise as a stage actress of imposing presence in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMBelarus Free Theater offers a scathing mosaic of its home city with “Minsk, 2011,” at the Under the Radar festival at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PM“Seagull (Thinking of you)” is a play that blurs boundaries: between actors and their roles, male and female, fiction and reality, past and present, parody and sincerity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PM“Midsummer,” written and directed by David Greig, is a rom-com in theatrical form centering on a long, wild weekend in Edinburgh complete with theft, bondage and drinking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PM“I, Malvolio,” a one-man show by Tim Crouch (with a little audience assistance), takes a “Twelfth Night” character out of context for the fun of it.
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